981 private quotes tagged men

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.” — Aristotle

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“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.” — George S. Patton

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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.” — Henry Ford

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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.” — Francis Bacon

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“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?” — Victor Hugo

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“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” — Sun Tzu

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“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.” — Francis Bacon

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“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” — Aristotle

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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” — Ayn Rand

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“Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.” — Voltaire

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“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” — George Orwell

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“The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” — C. S. Lewis

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